Pelidnota purpurea purpurea Burmeister, 1844

Moore, Matthew R., Jameson, Mary L., Garner, Beulah H., Audibert, Cedric, Smith, Andrew B. T. & Seidel, Matthias, 2017, Synopsis of the pelidnotine scarabs (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Rutelinae, Rutelini) and annotated catalog of the species and subspecies, ZooKeys 666, pp. 1-349 : 1

Pelidnota purpurea purpurea Burmeister, 1844

Pelidnota purpurea Burmeister, 1844: 394 [original combination].

Pelidnota (Ganonota) purpurea Burmeister [new subgeneric combination by Ohaus 1918: 26].

Pelidnota (Strigidia) purpurea Burmeister [new subgeneric combination by Machatschke 1970: 157].

Pelidnota (Odontognathus) purpurea Burmeister [new subgeneric combination by Hardy 1975: 4].

Strigidia purpurea (Burmeister) [new combination by Soula 2006: 33-34].

Pelidnota (Strigidia) purpurea Burmeister [revised combination and revised subgeneric combination by Özdikmen 2009: 145].

Pelidnota purpurea purpurea Burmeister [removal of subgeneric classification by Soula 2009: 115].

Distribution.

BRAZIL: Rio de Janeiro ( Burmeister 1844, Blanchard 1851, Ohaus 1918, 1934b, Blackwelder 1944, Machatschke 1972, Soula 2006, Krajcik 2008).

Types.

1 ♀ lectotype and 1 paralectotype of Pelidnota purpurea at MLUH ( Soula 2006).

Remarks.

CCECL contains a P. purpurea purpurea specimen labeled as a male alloréférent with the following data: 1 ♂ alloréférent: “MUSÉUM PARIS Rio de Castelnau 1844// Alloréférent de Strigidia purpurea Burm. M. SOULA det 19" (47030312). Genitalia card-mounted underneath the male alloréférent. Box 4618659 SOULA.